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Things I Think
Random thoughts on everything from J. Harbaugh and J. Nicklaus to J. Manchin and J. Hickenlooper.
Peter King of Sports Illustrated has a regular mini-feature called “Things I Think.” His are all on sports, of course. The first ones in this column are on sports, too, so I hereby steal his approach, with attribution.
I think this Super Bowl could be a great one. I predict a win for Coach J. Harbaugh (a stale joke already)… and his Baltimore Ravens.
I think the best Super Bowl ever was the one in which the Giants used David Tyree’s miraculous “helmet catch” to squeak past the Patriots and deny them the immortality of an undefeated season.
I think the other absolutely superb Super Bowls, in reverse chronological order, were: Giants over Pats again, last year; Steelers over Cardinals, with Santonio Holmes pulling off a touchdown in the last minute while barely getting toes on both feet in bounds; Patriots over Panthers (field goal with four seconds left); Patriots over Rams (another last-second field goal); Rams over Titans (tackle on one yard-line on last play of game); Giants over Bills (missed last-second field goal); Forty-Niners over Bengals (the “John Candy drive”); Colts over Cowboys (underrated game, because it was so sloppy, but it was hugely entertaining, and ended with a five-seconds-remaining field goal); and, tenth (not in chronological order), even though it wasn’t quite as close, Saints over Colts, because of the Saints long, star-crossed history and the comeback from Katrina.
I think if I had two players in their primes to build a team around to win a Super Bowl, I would go with Joe Montana and kicker Adam Vinatieri. Yes, a kicker. I want somebody imperturbable, with a great leg, on my side if the game is on the line. My coach would be Vince Lombardi. But if I wanted a coach to guarantee a truly exciting game, win or lose, it would be Bill Belichick, who not only has overseen an amazing five super-close Super Bowl games as head coach, but also was the defensive coordinator who figured out how to slow down the Buffalo Bills’ incredibly high-powered offense in order to win the 1991 Super Bowl, 20-19.
I think, switching sports, that Tiger Woods’ runaway win in the San Diego tourney is a portent of another monster year. Suddenly, by midsummer, all the pundits will again be saying that Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 profession major victories is in serious danger – alas.
I think Woods will never be as beloved as Nicklaus has become. He’s just not warm enough or personally thoughtful enough. And he doesn’t lose with enough grace.
I think, switching to politics, that personal grace is a key, oft-overlooked character trait that is essential for any republican (small ‘r’) leader to achieve the sorts of things that look great in the rearview mirror of history. George Washington had a fiery temper, but showed personal grace aplenty. Abe Lincoln needlessly abused executive power, but he exhibited a deep and abiding grace and compassion. Ronald Reagan famously kept a near-impenetrable personal bubble around him so that only Nancy truly got “close” to him – but he was a man of both grace and graciousness, a man who did countless, unpublicized acts of generosity for strangers.
Barack Obama has no personal grace. None. He is cold. He is petty. He is bitter. He will never achieve greatness. Oh, he will make a mark – it’s already a bad one – but he knows nothing about rallying a broad consensus behind him; instead, all he knows how to do is divide and (attempt to) conquer. Dividers aren’t great souls, and they aren’t great leaders.
I think Obama’s most notable (and notorious) legacy, Obamacare, will at least partially collapse, via both the courts and the market, before he leaves office. Four more, serious constitutional challenges to Obamacare remain (in terms of subject matter; in terms of lawsuits, the number is not four, but dozens). At least one of them, and maybe two or three, will succeed in invalidating not just some regulations, but in invalidating some of the legislative language (and perhaps the whole law). Meanwhile, the whole contraption will soon prove so unwieldy that the health care market will develop all sorts of end runs around the law, and the public will become increasingly enraged again.
I think Boeing’s problems with their Dreamliner plane are a sign of deeper corporate rot. This is a company for whom politics and bullying take precedence over excellence of product. If I were the Pentagon right now, I would be very, very nervous about the air tanker being built by Boeing.
I think even the National Republican Senatorial Committee will have a hard time blowing the 2014 Senate races. I expect major pickups by the GOP. I also think that in Louisiana, Mary Landrieu’s best move if she wants a political future is to not run for re-election, but instead to announce she will run for president. She can position herself as the lone real moderate in a sea of lefties, and win a plurality of votes in enough states to put herself on somebody’s VP list. But if she runs for re-election in Louisiana against, say, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, she will lose.
I think, unfortunately, that conservatives will be in bad position again in the Republican presidential race in 2016 – because, just as has repeatedly happened since Reagan left the scene, there will be clearly a greater number of solid conservatives than of moderates seeking the nomination, so the moderates will be dividing fewer votes, and one of the moderates will again win a series of pluralities and, thus, the nomination. The good news is that both Bobby Jindal and Paul Ryan are already trying to sound tonally more moderate without giving up conservative bona fides, showing that they understand the need to at least partially bridge their way out of the media-imposed ghetto of “right wing only” candidates who can’t find primary votes on the center-right. If a conservative candidate is indeed going to win the nomination, he or she will need to earn the votes of millions of moderate Republicans – and to do that, tone is incredibly important.
I think that neither Hillary Clinton nor Joe Biden will be the Democratic nominee in 2016. I think the RNC needs to be starting serious opposition research, right now, on Andrew Cuomo, Martin O’Malley, Joe Manchin (although it should also try to get Manchin to switch parties after 2014), John Hickenlooper, Mark Warner, Deval Patrick, and others. The time to get damaging stories (true ones only; no cheap shots) out is well before the campaigns start. The stories need to be vetted and confirmed even by the establishment media long before they can appear to be mere political attacks.
I think there remains a wide opening on the right for a good and principled communicator to step forward and re-explain conservatism, and the virtues of limited government, to hundreds of millions of Americans who either knew not Reagan or who have, in the intervening decades, forgotten his lessons.
I think, on second thought, that Coach J. Harbaugh will lose this week’s Super Bowl…..
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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drudge ette obama| 1.31.13 @ 6:31AM
Obama has no grace - else he could have stood up to the pressure during the debates with Romney. A leader can stand with enemies and hold his own. Obama believes the false protection of the press amounts to reality. He believes his own press.
Hope you are right about Obamacare. Just changed health insurance policies to add on a RX deductible. Old plan isn't offered anymore in anticipation of the penalty on extra sweet insurance coverage.
Seek| 1.31.13 @ 1:01PM
The press doesn't elect a president. The electorate is who elects. And Obama happened to get more of their vote than Romney did. It didn't have to happen that way. But the idea that Obama is "bitter" and "cold" is nonsense. There's no way he would have been elected in 2008 in the first place.
spike59| 1.31.13 @ 6:32AM
I think I will never get back the time I spent reading this stuff...
Appleby| 1.31.13 @ 6:33AM
I think the Republicans will dredge up another RINO East Coast Liberal and attempt to dress him up as Obiwan Kenobe and to sell us yet again that He Is Our Only Hope. Even fewer people will bother with him next time. I think nobody named Hickenlooper will ever be President of the US.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.31.13 @ 8:18AM
Ten years ago, as our troops were prosecuting the Global War on Terror in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and assembling in Kuwait to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom, had someone told you that in half a decade, the country would elect a man named Barack Hussein Obama, the laughter would have knocked the world off of its axis (then again, maybe that axis thing is what actually happened).
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 3:34PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's Tuesday Column.
Maxwell| 1.31.13 @ 8:32AM
Appleby, please, NO. Your pick only brings to mind our very own, Chris Christie! There is just to much about him I don't like.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 9:55AM
Did you know that there's Something Afoot, tomorrow?
Well, there is.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:19PM
Mr. Bowman's house.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 3:34PM
His Tuesday Column.
R Martin| 1.31.13 @ 11:54AM
Maxwell, re Christi, you could have just it at, "There is just too much of him." But you're right, what is there is all slimy politician. Has Ann Coulter ever explained why she swooned all over this guy?
John Navratil| 1.31.13 @ 1:50PM
R Martin,
She said: "My flirtation with Christie was like running off with a biker. He was new and exciting — and made conservatives feel alive. But I came back to the responsible choice. Romney is the absolute best man to run against a dirty street fighter like Obama[...]"
I love the lady, but this was not her at her best.
Grzmlyk| 1.31.13 @ 3:35PM
I don't know. I used to like Ann alot - now I think it's just a different version of the same carnival Dick Morris and so many other hucksters represent.
I can't forgive her for her utter blindness regarding Christie, and what I think is her subsequent disingenousness with respect to Romney.
She's there to burnish her brand and to sell books, like Morris. Nothing wrong with that, but that doesn't make one necessarily trustworthy or wise - or even consistent - and, while I am still interested in what she has to say, I don't trust her.
Christie was an obvious red herring from the git go.
John Navratil| 1.31.13 @ 5:15PM
Grzmlyk,
Can't disagree at all. But when she is on, she's hot - a samurai pundit. I'll stick with her commentary on current affairs and leave her prognostications aside.
Maxwell| 1.31.13 @ 2:05PM
R, I do have a copy of a C. Christie poster when he was running for office years ago, the anti AR15 one. Christie was actually almost normal size.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:20PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 3:35PM
His Tuesday Column.
Jack in Wi| 1.31.13 @ 6:43AM
Appleby, Spike, and drudge above said it all. Why bother to say more. If Ryan and Jindal are our hope for the future, there is no future.
Frank Drackman| 1.31.13 @ 9:13AM
I don't care if he did have a little side action goin on(what Powerful man doesn't?) Herb Cain would have done better than Willard, and could win in 2016, if he just gets 5% of the Black Vote(he'll get more) that puts almost every DemoKKKrat state in play, even Cal-e-forn-i-a.
Frank
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 12:28PM
Dreck,
I think you need to put down the Herb Cane pipe. If I'm not mistaken, it's Herm Cain.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:21PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 3:36PM
His Tuesday Column.
JimH| 1.31.13 @ 8:33AM
The random thoughts column, the refuge of a columnist with a deadline and no subject. Dr. Sowell can do this on occasion Quin. You I think still need to work for a living.
loulou| 1.31.13 @ 10:22AM
Agree. Quin's no Dr Sowell.
Apparently Quin sees the NRSC and other establishment RINOs as the ones who decides things in the GOP.
Quin Hillyer| 1.31.13 @ 12:46PM
For the record, I have been an outspoken critic of the NRSC in the past several years.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:23PM
Contest tomorrow, Mr. Hillyer, at Mr. Bowman's house.
Join us.
You won't be disappointed.
It's a Scene, man.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:24PM
If you're one of us?
You'll check it out.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 8:50AM
I thinkQuin has lost his marbles if he believes Mary Landrieu is a moderate. It is the same Mrs. Landrieu who believes the deficit problem is a hoax conceived by "right wingers"...
I thinkTiger Woods will eventually surpass Jack Nicholas' record but will struggle to do so. He still doesn't have control of his drives and he simply will not be able to match those crazy putting streaks in the early 00's that allowed him to sink 25-foot putts with ease. Impossible to replicate!
I thinkobama has indeed left a permanent mark on our country. Actually, more like a stain.
I thinkthe republican party will be relegated to the ash heap of history. The Bush Dynasty sealed it's fate....No Bush Dynasty, no Hopey Changey!
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 8:51AM
...No Hopey Changey, no end of republican party.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 10:24AM
I THINK you should go to The Contest, tomorrow.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 12:29PM
You think, therefore I'm there :-)
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 2:01PM
To be is to do-DesCartes
To do is to be-Sartre
DoobyDoobyDoo-Sinatra
3 more hours 'til scotch time
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:25PM
The Contest is at Mr. Bowman's house.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 4:38PM
De doo doo doo, De daa daa daa - The Police
It's five o'clock somewhere.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 6:03PM
Da Do Run Run, Da Do Run Run-Crystals
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 6:16PM
Da Da Da - Trio
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 6:38PM
dooby, dooby, dooby.....dooby dooby, dooby....dooby dooby, dooby...You Little Trust Maker-Tynes
Quin Hillyer| 1.31.13 @ 9:44AM
To be clear, I didn't say Landrieu IS a moderate (although, by today's Democratic standards, she sorta is -- but that's grading on a wacked-out curve); I said she could POSITION herself as a moderate. I watched her launch her career about two miles from my house, and ever since, and I've seen how she operates politically.
Citizen Jerry| 1.31.13 @ 10:30AM
Is this the same Mary Landrieu who threatened to punch George Bush in the nose if he didn't stop criticizing Louisiana for the way they handled Hurricane Katrina?
As for the Republicans having a hard time blowing the 2014 Senate elections, they have a special skill for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 12:46PM
In other words, she's another sleazeball politician who misrepresents what she stands for and will position herself accordingly to move up the political chain.
Quin, I hope you'll be there to "shine light" on her if she decides to run.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 8:58AM
I THINK I'm a better writer than this guy.
I THINK that I'm smarter than this guy.
And, I KNOW that I'm Prettier.
I THINK that I would write MY OWN STUFF, and not COPY Dr. Sowell. I would not COPY Ben Stein, (whom one of our other Contributors - [The one with all the Frequent Flyer Points from Malaria Airlines] - seems to have attached himself to with a "Diary" of his own) I would lose that, if I was him.
I THINK that I would be smart enough to NOt Copy a dick like Peter King. This one, or the one on Long Island.
I THINK that spike59 is right.
I THINK that Albert is ALWAYS Right.
I THINK that Doctor Right is ALWAYS Wrong.
I THINK that Pesco sounds better then Pecos.
I THINK that Appleby is confusing "A Mensa Meeting" she once went to, with a "Meeting in the Mens Room" that she once had. Hardcard is confusing "Real Prizes" with Imaginary ones. And Arnie is confusing everything he thinks that he "Knows" with Reality.
And, I THINK all of you know that I'm right, on this one.
Pecos Pete| 1.31.13 @ 9:14AM
1. I'm not sure that Pesco sounds better than Pecos. On the other hand, Pesco is easier to spell.
2. You are the Prettiest of the Pretty. No question about it.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 9:16AM
I THINK, therefore you am. Or something like that. Is it scotch time yet?
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 9:28AM
You're awake, ain't ya?
That MAKES it Scotch Time.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 9:58AM
Yep...awake and to all appearances, on the correct side of the grass. Life is good.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 10:13AM
And, just like that......you crapped your pants.
I THINK you should come to the Contest, tomorrow. I'll tell Hardcard to bring the Booze. Albert will bring the Food. And Pesco will provide the Entertainment by Milking his Horse, while reciting the collective works of Nathan Lane.
Pecos Pete| 1.31.13 @ 10:45AM
I will play “a bottom line-obsessed manager imposed on the federal governmnet by the taxpayers to cut costs” and will help get the government back in financial shape. My arrival will ruffle feathers at the MSM – mostly those of Stupid Communist Village Idiots and so called journalists.
PS: I am much more good looking than Nathan.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 11:14AM
I'll say.
The Colonel says you're HOT.
And, he was in that Foxhole with ya this Summer.
Of course, he's also a Drunk.
I don't know who to believe, anymore.
SUBVET| 1.31.13 @ 12:08PM
Nathan Lane......"I didn't put any make-up on and took off all my rings".......sitting there trying to look like a man.
guess ?
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 12:24PM
Timmy,
I think you're good enough, you're smart enough, and dog gone it, people like you!!!
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:30PM
I am good enough.
I am smart enough.
And, doggone it, people do like me.
And not only that, but I'm Hung like Einstein, and Smart as a Horse.
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 4:05PM
Einstein was a grower, not a shower.
er, so it's been written.
Frank Drackman| 1.31.13 @ 9:11AM
Whats "Immoral" about an Undefeated Season??
I don't get it
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 9:59AM
It's not "Fair".
Remember, this is a Karl Rove Friendly Outfit.
No Conservatives, they.
loulou| 1.31.13 @ 10:23AM
Right. What we're dealing with here are RINOs.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 10:29AM
I trust you will grace us with your Sassy Style, tomorrow, loulou?
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:31PM
Mr. Bowman's house.
cicero| 1.31.13 @ 9:11AM
So, Ronald Reagan was a "moderate" Republican? Where were you during his term in office? The man stood by his conservative principles, and that is why he won in a landslide in his second run. The only time he stumbled was when he tried to look moderate, and cooperate with O"Niell. The Republicans have run "Moderates" ever since, and they have either had their heads handed to them by hucksters, or they have spent the out years blaming the moderation of their winning candidates on all the evils that have befallen the party.
I the Republicans want to regain power in Washington, they have to run like the successful governors have in the states. They have to clearly identify their conservative principles, and hammer away at them. Then, they have to live by them.
C. Vernon Crisler | 1.31.13 @ 9:23AM
Yes, that was when Reagan was at his best and most popular, when he was expressing conservative political principles and libertarian economic principles. His stumbled when he tried to sound moderate or enact moderate policies (tax increases), but overall he was more conservative in his administration than not. That's why he was a great president. Sadly, there is no one in the current Republican Party that comes close. They are all out there trying to out-moderate each other.
Quin Hillyer| 1.31.13 @ 9:46AM
Who said Reagan was a moderate? I didn't.....
Frank Drackman| 1.31.13 @ 9:15AM
I think Larry King started this stuff...
Who do Hot Dogs at Yankee Stadium taste so good
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't let Ray Lewis date my daughter...
Jenna Jamison's Vagina never gets old...
Frank "Whats the Question?!" King
Anthony| 1.31.13 @ 9:16AM
I think New Orleans is a lousy place for a SuperBowl.
I think Chocolate City corrupt Mayor Ray Nagan needs to be imprisoned for life, with Mary Landreau as his cell mate. They can fight for who gets the top bunk.
I think Chocolate City Mayor Ray Nagan needs to finally get those buses out of the parking lot and back on the roads.
I think they finally need to clear the Super Dome of all its squatters.
I think there should be a welcome sign with Fmr. Gov. Blanco saying BLAME BUSH.
I think they should just turn New Orleans into an under water city, with a dome, of course.
I think Duck Dynasty is a great American corporation.
I think the rest of Louisiana is just fine.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 9:52AM
I think that there's a Contest, tomorrow.
Have you SEEN the Wookie's "Real Hair"? Do you know that She keeps a Butch Doo under Her Wigs? Do you know that "Her" hair looks exactly like "His" hair, when She takes off Her Wig?
I THINK that they met at one of his Soirées in to Chicago's Gay District. I think that they were each Cross Dressing at the time, and when they met, they were astonished. He looked exactly like She did when She wasn't dressed like a He. And She looked exactly like He did when He wasn't dressed like a She. It was Love at Double Vision.
I THINK that this is a Phoney Marriage.
I THINK that "Their Kids" are from Central Casting.
And, I THINK that tapes of what these two Freaks are doing upstairs at the White House, would make Bill Clinton Blush, Rue Paul get Hard and Wet at the same time, and send Purp to the Barber Shop, the Wig Store, and someplace that sells Shoe Polish.
I need a Coffee, and a Shower.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 10:00AM
I need a Coffee, and a Shower.
I need a shower after your last post. Too early for some of them visuals.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:34PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
Be there, or be your old Foxhole buddy - Pesco.
loulou| 1.31.13 @ 10:25AM
It's not a phony marriage.
It's just that he's the girl and she's the man.
SUBVET| 1.31.13 @ 12:11PM
It's call a "down low" marriage..............
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:35PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
Be there, or be that Drunk - mike 3/505.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 6:05PM
There are much worse folks to be. Heheheheheh.
Bob Grant| 1.31.13 @ 4:27PM
Perhaps "she" is really a long lost cousin from hometown Kenya and their little scheme to sneak him/her into the country bloomed into a full-fledged romance?
And the kids?....castoffs from the Cosby remake?
Uh, I dunno. Just a working theory at this point.
N8tivTxn| 2.1.13 @ 2:31AM
I think, you're right loulou ;)
Purp| 2.1.13 @ 12:54AM
LOSER.
Who Knows?| 1.31.13 @ 10:26AM
Thinking is over rated.
That's what I think.
mike 3/505| 1.31.13 @ 6:40PM
Thinking....Over rated
Drinking...Waaay Under Rated.
Simon Templar| 1.31.13 @ 10:29AM
"If a conservative candidate is indeed going to win the nomination, he or she will need to earn the votes of millions of moderate Republicans – and to do that, tone is incredibly important."
Well, they can learn to do what we have done for a century...hold their nose and pull the lever. If these moderates think they can continue to control and dominate the election process then they will continue to lose. This nation will be so wrecked by 2016 that it will be unrecognizable. If the electorate has not had enough of liberalism and the democratic party by then, kiss the GOP goodbye. If these moderates think they can play games and allow another loss, then let them be damned. If conservatives allow them, the same.
Who Knows?| 1.31.13 @ 10:43AM
Some piquant thoughts, totally unplanned---
2014 elections will NOT be like 2010. The GOP will be lucky to hold the house.
Obama has only begun to fight--- he will be even nastier, AND the MSM will be able to continue conning most people, so his approval numbers will not approach those of GWB, say 27%.
People will start to fully realize the GOP is the Stupid Party, not because it acts that way, but because it IS stupid, given that the high profile leaders of that group of humans is selected by---stupid people.
The Ravens lost 4 of the last 5 season ending games. Their success in the playoffs will be the high-water mark of an over-achieving team, and the 49ers will spank them, or at least beat them. As a long-time “retired” 49er fan, this Super Bowl reminds me of the second one against the Bengals---can you say mismatch?
Reagan was famous for saying, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Obama is the wannabe anti-Reagan, so place your bets on the fact that he has much more new SEEING in store for his “subjects”.
America has ceased being a nation of laws. The rule of MAN, de facto, is now once-and-for-all the case. The precedent has been solidly set by Obama---selective enforcement of laws will swamp judicial oversight, if you get my drift.
Purp| 2.1.13 @ 12:56AM
That's funny - we are a nation of laws, but Conservadums want to limit a woman's right to choose, when it is legally the law of the land.
Why do they continue to break the law? Because you're full of baloney.
Petronius| 1.31.13 @ 12:54PM
Best Superbowl ever; 1970. I had the Chiefs and cleaned house on all my bets. God Bless Hank Stramm and Jan Stenerud.
Ronsch| 1.31.13 @ 2:03PM
Best Superbowl ever: Number 1...Where it all started for the entire League, not just the conferences.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:36PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 4:58PM
His Tuesday Column.
Hardcard| 1.31.13 @ 2:08PM
I'll bring two big jugs of Night Train (best at room temp) I have a call out to Bobby Menendez for the food, aroz com pollo with black beans, plantains maduro, and three 16 year old chicas to serve and entertain the winning contestants, airfare not included. At this point what difference does it make ?
TLP| 1.31.13 @ 2:37PM
Contest tomorrow at Mr. Bowman's house.
Be there, or be Hardcard.
Rhoetus| 1.31.13 @ 10:53PM
Dr. Sowell is one of the few writers where I learn something new every time I read something he wrote. Yet to learn anything new or illuminating on on O'Reilly or Hannity.
N8tivTxn| 2.1.13 @ 2:23AM
I think,
Manchin is taking instruction from McLoon, to be the "Maverick" of the Left...
It'll never work, but the show should be entertaining.